What Pens Are You Using Today?

[kazoolaw]

Visconti Copernicus (blue) medium nib, Noodlers Zhivago

Lamy Persona(matte black) stubbed medium, Herbin Bleu Nuit

[archie001]

I am interchanging among:

 

MB G.Bernard Shaw set of FP,BP,MP

MB 149 witha set of LeGrand RB,BP,MP

MB Solitaire Sterling Silver set of FP,BP,MP

 

@home I also use my Parkers

[Fernan]

All Parkers :

• mainly a Vac 51, with Quink Blue,
• a 21 with Herbin Rouge Opéra, and
• a Challenger, with Herbin Bleu Nuit.

Taking preliminary notes for an essay, to be developed, on travel.

 

Fernan

[ClericRuss]

Quite spartan on my part actually...

 

For general journal writing i continue to use my grand-Pa's old beat up No Nonsense Sheaffer fountain with jet black ink. with that I also use/carry a 1979/80 slimline Sheaffer with a chrome slip top & clear red body...

 

The reason for that is "oddly" simple: an old trick I was taught by an artist uncle of mine.

 

His axiom was that you should interchange your cartridge pens to allow a newly empty one a chance to "recharge" after having replaced the "tube"- it was an odd system as you'd have to have at least two of each type [like a Rapidograph or a Sheaffer NN for example] and switching back-n-forth.

 

thing is- in 20+ years of having used the two I have- I've yet to have problems with the exception that the "newer" [boy is that a loose term] one is faulty every once in a while to the point it's just now becoming consistent.

 

Again- spartan by many considerations given the types and qualities available even today...

 

But then- there's a sense of "regallity" to even the most humble monk if his story is one that's never been heard...

 

Cleric

[prisonrodeo]

Today: Black Skyline, GF cap, flexy-n-wet medium nib, with Skrip black.

[bentnib]

Alternating between the Sailor 1911M inked with Waterman Havana Brown for smaller detailed margin notes, and a Sailor Sapporo B inked with Waterman Blue-black for larger faster scrawling ...

[jonro]

Today it has been mostly a black Sheaffer PFM III inked with Waterman's Florida Blue and a brown Imperial desk pen filled with PR Lake Placid Blue.

[ethernautrix]

The inimitable Robert Hughes gave me an Esterbrook, which I filled with Pelikan Blue-Black -- and it is absolutely marvelous. I used it all day at work.

 

 

I got to try out a bunch of his Esterbrooks, and I have to say, they are very, very enticing. They write and wear well. Love the nibs!

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a modern Aurora 88 full sized (with piston filler) with sterling cap loaded up with Aurora Blue.

[flodoc]

Today the Taccia Momenta ran out of ink, so a Krone Laminato Sante Fe took its place.

[gylyf]

Visconti Voyager Anniversary, 14K F, Diamine WES Imperial Blue.

Delta Moresi, 18K OM, Stipula Deep Blue.

 

Best,

David

[Bill Smith]

Today's pens are a black Pelikan M800 M nib loaded up with Diamine Prussian Blue and a mid '40s Parker 51 Cedar Blue Vac loaded with Quink Blue Black.

[GardenWeasel]

OK, here is unexpected. I am using today my Sailor 1911 with EF nib. Unexpected is when I topped off the converter that had only a "smidge" of Galileo Manuscript Brown with Dumas Tulipe Noire (sp?), all I got today was a bolder brown! Very pretty, but unexpected...

[Fernan]

A 51. Actually two 51s, both Vacs. It's a new, but really nice experience writing with these pens. Although I must confess I have to get used to them. It's tough to beat, or even to rise to and equal the experience of writing with a Valiant.

 

 

Fernan

[Bill Smith]

Today's pens are a Parker 51 Midnight Blue Aero loaded up with the beautiful yet much feared and misunderstood Noodlers Baystate Blue and a Pelikan M600 Blue stripes loaded up with Diamine Imperial Blue.

[gadgetjunky]

Pulled two old friends out of storage last night:

 

- Sheaffer Touchdown (Triumph?), fine wet nib, full of Noodler's Navajo Turquoise

- Parker 51 Special, medium nib, full of Diamine DC Supershow 2004 Presidential Blue

 

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Edited January 30, 2009 by DannyJackson

[Fernan]

51 Vac, Quink blue

Esterbrook LJ, 2314 M nib, Quink black.

 

 

Fernan

[tomscs]

Conway Stewart 75

Pelican GO

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a late 1970's sterling silver Parker 75 with fine nib and loaded up with Pilot Iroshizuku Asa Gao ink.

 

 

[Okami]

Acme Dogs

Visconti Black